| Author | Berry, Brian Joe Lobley, 1934-
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| Title | America's utopian experiments : communal havens from long-wave crises / Brian J.L. Berry.
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| Published | Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College : University Press of New England, c1992.
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| Description | xviii, 271 p. : ill. maps ; 24 cm.
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| Series | The Nelson A. Rockefeller series in social science and public policy
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| ISBN | 0-87451-589-0 |
| ISBN | 0-87451-590-4 (pbk.) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (P. [255]-265) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: The spatial pattern and the cultural matrix -- Contrapuntal long-wave rhythms -- Shakerdom -- German separatists adjust: The Rappites, Zoarites, and Amana Colonists -- The Owenite experiments: Secular socialism arrives -- Mormonism: From the burned-over district to the Deseret Kingdom -- The Fourierist outbreak -- Oneida's Perfectionists and the New England Transcendentalists -- Etienne Cabet's French Communard Icarians -- The Hutterites.
Jewish agricultural resettlement -- Religious Sectarianism, the Social Gospel, and Theosophy -- Secular alternatives: From free love and vegetarianism to the cooperative commonwealth -- An epidemic of Socialism? -- Henry George and the single tax -- The state takes over: New Deal Communities -- Alongside the New Deal: Catholic and Black American Movements -- Pathways to self-realization: From protest movements to the New Age Paradigm -- A Capitalist-Socialist Dialectic -- The wave of the 1990s.
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| Subjects | Collective settlements -- United States -- History.
Sects -- United States -- History.
Social movements -- United States -- History.
Socialism -- United States -- History.
Utopias -- History.
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| LC Card Number | 92-10001 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: HX 83 B533
mq29057: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 21944] |
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